Lycosoidea

Lycosoidea
Wolf spider carrying young
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Section: Entelegynae
Superfamily: Lycosoidea
Families

See text.
Diversity
12 families, c. 4,000 species

The Lycosoidea are a superfamily of araneomorph eight-eyed spiders, with twelve families:

According to Fang et al. (2000)[1], the relationship of some families, inferred from mitochondrial 12S and 16S rDNA, is as follows:

       +---- Psechridae
    +--|
    |  +---- Oxyopidae
----|
    |  +---- Pisauridae
    +--|
       +---- Lycosidae

References

  1. ^ Fang, K, Yang, C.-C., Lue, B.-W., Chen, S.-H. & Lue, K.-Y. (2000). Phylogenetic Corroboration of Superfamily Lycosoidae [sic] Spiders (Araneae) as Inforred from Partial Mitochondrial 12S and 16S Ribosomal DNA Sequences. Zoological Studies 39(2):107-113. PDF